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Pod Save America

CHAPTER

The Electoral College Map Is Laughable

A third party ticket would need to win either deep blue state states or deep red states, which is pretty impossible considering that partisans tend to vote for their party. Even if they won all the swing states and they win all the states decided by 10 points or less in 2020, that gets them to 187 electoral votes, which means they're way, way short of 270. No independent analyst will even dignify it with a response because it's so crazy. And I'm trying to imagine why is this being taken so seriously? The only reason is because they have tens of millions of dollars behind them. But I think it is an ill advised effort. It is not strategic. Yes, we want

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